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Keep digging up your light!
It has been a hazy week for me. Like the terrible fog we saw this morning in STL. I started the week in stride, with great news and almost immediately, bad news followed. I imagine this is what happens when you let the bad in. They reflect no stars and can keep you down, if…
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Keep planting seeds for people’s health!
Langston Hughes has a poem of how a seed planted at the right time, produces flower, that go on to become more than the seed ever imagined. Imagine if the path of the pandemic was like a seed. Imagine how we will blossom when we become flower. All because we took the time to first…
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Keep knowing the path out of the pandemic is hopeless until we center the people in public health!
Langston Hughes has a poem of how a seed at the right time, produces flower, which goes on to become more than the seed ever imagined. Imagine if the path out of the pandemic was like a seed. Imagine how we will blossom when we become flowers. All because we took the time to first…
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Keep telling stories of decolonizing anything, somethings, everything!
I liked a paper shared on Twitter yesterday. It focused on why decolonizing geosciences mattered. I loved everything I read that I felt it was critical to keep some. The fact that we have been told that certain ways of knowing and doing are superior resonated deeply with me. That and the fact that for…
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Keep embracing failure!
Writing grants has taught me how to fail 30 times. I look forward to the 31st time. Counting failures is something I do now. Something I embrace too. The hurdles or the joy. The writing. The waiting. The bearing witness to, how things we believe in crumble, for lack of funding. And I have believed…
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Keep words.
Words sustain me. They open me. To hope, to love, to light. The universe sends them. I receive them. They sustain me. So I sustain you. Open you too. To hope, to heal, to light. Keep words.
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Keep ‘I am her tribe!’
Danielle Doby has a beautiful book worth keeping. It’s simple invitation, ‘come as you are’ is quite simply sterling. I am coming. I am coming into a space that allows me to choose in the name of my heart. I am all for a space in praise of my younger self’s quest for life’s light.…
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Keep your seasons, keep your reasons!
I am in my own season, at last. With my own reasons, for me. They call this the age of reason, I laugh. This isn’t a silly season. I know. Just my own season, for me. With my own reasons, at last
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Keep lions telling stories of injustices with this pandemic!
With history, be prepared to construct and reconstruct it from a different perspective, a Black perspective, an African perspective too. Our stories have been told to us by others for far too long that this time, the lions are ready to take the stage. The complexities and racist histories of colonialism is finally taking center…
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Keep the power of unexpressed love with grief!
Grief is love unexpressed. I learnt that today watching an Instagram video of Andrew Garfield as he talked about the passing of his mom. To him, grief is a beautiful thing. Grief is also unexpressed love. He hoped his grief will remain with him as he never got time to express all the love even…
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Keep the serious matter of being together!
Words call us, we go. A blurry thought, uncertain notes, hopelessly we stroll until meaning becomes clear, becomes us. Today we sat patiently trying to wait for words to come. It took a while. Children were crying. Hearts were weary but souls were full from a reunion a pandemic almost denied. We waited for the…
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Keep simple words this Thanksgiving!
Simple words are all we need to touch each other. To feel, to wonder, to love all that makes us whole. I am learning the power of simple. The power of soft words, like velvet gently brushed across my skin. The power of inclusive words too that wrap us all together like a fuzzy blanket…
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Writing with Juliet Iwelunmor 